Mi 11 Ultra review - Xiaomi just killed Samsung

So it really looks like there are two types of flagship phones. Nowadays, you have one type in which you decide the type of company. Phones are sufficiently capable. Let's really focus on design, software, or marketing, but then

Ve's got the other kind of screw that we put in, everything into me11 goes into ultra. This is not trying to be a good phone. It. It tries to be the best phone that can be bought with money. The box is nothing special but more importantly, nothing is missing.

It comes with a USBc adapter to headphone jack, the case is standard and transparent, and underneath the phone we get a usbc charging cable and a 67W fast charger. Let's get one thing the way not everyone will like it.

I've shown this m11 ultra look to seven by eight people now and feedback has ranged from this, the coolest phone I have ever seen. Why do these so big companies seem to be trying to take over the world, and I think why.

Polarization is that this is a confident design. Don't try to be halfway home. She is not trying to please everyone. He knows what he wants to look like, in this case, a tech giant and he's working with him.

Mi 11 honestly leaves elegance and sophistication at the doorstep instead of dining. Samsung for breakfast type. The aesthetic and I think it works - it proudly flaunts its specs. The lenses are enormous.

The camera unit itself takes up a quarter of the phone's space, and it's actually not an inconvenience as much as I had anticipated. Yes, it collects dust, you can probably see some of it up here, but since the camera unit, it doesn't extend all the way down, it's surprising that it's out of the way by fingers and it's so wide.

Instead of aggravating the flickering problem, like many of these large cameras, does it solve the flicker problem? Also, this is not glass, they have already abandoned it in place of ceramic, which is often considered a v-pro material.

But I haven't actually sold it completely. I guess I prefer the comfort of the matte glass versus the city of fingerprints here, and this phone was really heavy. The density of ceramic pushes it into one of the heaviest phones.

I've used it before, and it wasn't a problem for me, but it was a problem for some people that I handed it over to, and God helped everyone who accidentally drops this on their faces. One night, but most importantly, is what this phone does when I first started using the Mi 11 Ultra, I laughed because after months of phones that couldn't match my Samsung galaxy s21 Ultra, and who all deserve to prove how outstanding the phone is all of a sudden , We have a device that not only tries to exchange blows and is comparable.

Xiaomi is trying to kill Samsung. So I'll show you how I'm next going to tell you why this whole thing is offered, even though they're roughly the same price, aka lots of money. Well take a look at the s21 ultra screen, I feel, like the word.

An enormous phenomenon gets thrown around a lot, but I can't. Think of the many things that deserve this title. Actually, Samsung. Phones have so good screens that it's kind of a tradition that every time they release a new s-series phone it becomes the best offering of the year until their Note Series phone comes in after six months or so and gets better on it, so it's great to sit here and say : xiaomi.

The Me 11 series breaks that cycle, and, ironically, uses a Samsung board. Both are 6.8-inch plus, AMOLED Quad HD plus 120 hertz gorilla glass, vectors, HDR, 10 plus adaptive panels. How many times have I just said, plus, but xiaomi? The S is much brighter with a maximum of 1700 nits, instead of 1500, making it the brightest phone screen.

He's probably got a sample rate of 480 Hz versus 240 ... that. How quickly to find touches no. You have that slight blue shift. While tilting, the phone and Xiaomi can display 10-bit color against Samsung colors.

8-bit, it's not actually a 10-bit panel, but it uses technology that simulates the presence of greater color depth. It's also quadruple curved, so it slopes up and down, plus left and right, I think, to make gestures, it looks smoother but evenly, because the only bits that aren't right now are curved in the corners, I can't get rid of the feeling that my phone looks like Like it had a really bad haircut basically even though xiaomi has two amoled screens, so you might have heard of me band 5, last generation activity tracker.

They basically took a screen of that and slapped it on the back of this phone and on the one hand, this little thing. We don't do much of what we've already done, and we've never seen it before from that apt dual screen.

Phones, but it's still pretty impressive that it can do many of these same things, when in fact it's only a side benefit. Instead of the basic gimmick and b by having it on this particular phone, it enables something that I think has the potential to completely change the game, but I'll get there.

It also has an amazing customization suite. You can have the time and inspiring quote: You can put your face in there, but oddly enough they did so that it turns off after 30 seconds max, because I'm actually going to keep my phone screen down just so I can check the time by messing around and double clicking on This little screen on the back is to wake her up, maybe not, but yeah, she is.

Okay with the bunny ears. I guess xiaomi, it killed it with the screen, but what about the battery? Because the fact that the s21 ultra has 5000mAh stuff just means I stopped thinking about it and that's a good thing.

It's not like we get positive battery reminders like congratulations. I'm still at 90 so the smaller the battery, on your mind, the better the battery does its job and by using the same scale, xiaomi goes further because it charges faster.

Ve said this before faster charging is not necessarily a good thing. This can degrade the battery, meaning that they have to divide one cell into multiple cells, giving you less total capacity, but they did it quickly.

Charging here, in a way that gets around its major flaws, like you, you still get the same 5,000mAh capacity and roughly the same six hours of screen time on a typical day with all settings going past the max.

But instead of having a thicker battery to enable fast charging, we actually got a thinner battery thanks to what appears to be new materials, and a fine amount of fast charging, instead of 70 minutes on the s21 Ultra, me.

Get 40 on xiaomi, and while using my xiaomi, you can also charge almost the same speed wirelessly as well, which takes 120 times on Samsung or 3 times more. Now you might know I'm not a huge advocate of wireless charging and you'll have to buy a xiaomi wireless charger specifically to get those speeds.

It's hard to argue with Samsung's direction here, although charging in all sensors is slower. They still don't. Give you a Xiaomi charging brick you do. Oh before I forget, I checked my stats. The other day and 49 viewers are subscribed, 51 of you are not.

So, if you enjoy this video, one of the subchannels is Hot Electric. Let's try and reverse this balance. Well, you might have started noticing a topic here. It really looks the same as with Xiaomi's Mi 11 ultra, took a Samsung phone as a template and then tried literally to customize it in every aspect.

Even her speakers sound basically the same, a little louder, which is subtle, but it is. In fact, there is enough difference for this phone to be one of the few that can pass the i-shower test.

Can I take it to shower and still clearly hear the sounds in a video I'm watching so that it made it a faster phone? I run the latest antutu benchmark test five times in a row and you'll notice a few things.

Firstly, this xiaomi screen starts dimming itself very quickly and you can't turn up the brightness by yourself when you do it, but also in every benchmark xiaomi goes ahead very clearly, this is against the best-performing snapdragon version of the xiaomi s21 ultra reach a higher internal temperature, but no It appears to be affecting its ability to maintain performance.

Can I tell the difference when playing regular Android games? No, not really, but I can imagine that anyone looking to buy an ultrawide phone will probably appreciate the extra three months or so of future proof you might get with higher outlays like that.

Besides, while both phones come by default. With 12GB of fast lpddr5 RAM, Xiaomi comes with twice the speed of UFS 3.1 storage. Here. The big news, though, is that the first thing that kept Samsung in the lead are its cameras.

I will link. Another comparison I used here, but the gist of it is that Samsung. The combination of reliability and versatility is currently indisputable. So far, it is easy to look beyond the Mi 11 Ultra HD cameras; Well, not that easy.

It's as if the whole philosophy behind this was to match all specifications and then move forward wherever they can realistically. Oh, it got a 6.8-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1440 x 3200.

So are we, but we're brighter. Oh, it got a five thousand million battery. Would you look at that? So are we charging fees faster? You have 960 fps super slow motion. This good.

Nice, we just doubled down that you're zooming in 100 times we're zooming in by 120..you get the idea. This is why my Xiaomi phone review was basically just a comparison with Samsung, but why? Why is this phone targeting them directly? The answer is Huawei.

Two years ago, Huawei was exploding, and Huawei was breaking borders, and it was on its way to becoming the superpower for smartphones in the world, but then the US ban happened and as soon as the repercussions did and no google services took effect.

Huawei fell and left Xiaomi, with a surprising opportunity to capture this massive market segment. It has left Huawei behind to become number one in the world, and the only obstacle to it is the more established Samsung.

It tries to do the same, so all Xiaomi needs to make sure it does what Samsung does, but it's either cheaper or better by most metrics. Work away from the camera. Zoom in / Zoom out, which I feel is mislabeled here, a by-product of Xiaomi.

The targeted approach is that, of course, you will end up with a higher phone, and even a more extreme phone. I know some people don't like the xiaomi miui look, but this is an Android that you can put aside like 20 minutes.

You can just uninstall all bloatware and you can set up your home screen just the way you want it. It wouldn't make sense for me to say don't buy this phone as I have mixed feelings towards me.

Icon-wise, the thing that matters is that it's fast, it's stable, completely bug-free and ad-free. From my experience and that you get good software support, which is what you generally do with xiaomi flagship software, you'll likely get two years of major Android updates and very likely after that, four years from me.

Security and UI updates. I've talked a lot about miui in previous xiaomi reviews, so I'm going to link, one of them here, but basically, if I'm going to summarize it, like one word, I'll say options.

There's a lot you can do in miui, like that even the display settings are just nuts, it's got sunlight mode for really bright scenarios, anti-flicker modes for color temperature and even screen texture.

You can actually turn it into a paper-like experience. If you like it, the 11 Ultra is the new standard, but I think the galaxy s21 ultra still does enough things better. They both have a place.

Samsung has a more sophisticated aesthetic, and so do I. Ultimately argues the most beautiful. The fingerprint scanner is not only faster at detecting but also more forgiving, and I would still say this has a more reliable camera system.